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Ralph ConnorIn 1916 he was made senior chaplain of Canadian Forces in England with the rank of Major.
Sybil IrvingShe was also appointed Honorary Colonel of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) when the Army re-formed its women's service in 1951.
William John CodringtonOn his return to England, Codrington was promoted lieutenant-general, appointed colonel of the 54th Foot, and in 1857 was elected M. P. for Greenwich, in the liberal interest.
Brian Paddick, Baron PaddickHe was, until his retirement in May 2007, Deputy Assistant Commissioner in London's Metropolitan Police Service and the United Kingdom's most senior openly gay police officer.
Robert Mark When he left school in 1935 he got a job as a carpet salesman, but finding this boring, He initially served with the 108th Regiment, but through the influence of his elder brother James, who worked at the War Office, attached to the GHQ Liaison Regiment, known as Phantom, which provided liaison with special forces units.
Francis Napier, 10th Lord NapierOn the assassination of the Earl Mayo, the then Viceroy of India in February 1872, Napier was appointed to act temporarily as the Viceroy of India and served from February to May 1872.
John de Havilland (officer of arms)On 26 March 1872, he was promoted to the position of York Herald of Arms in Ordinary.
Richard Pilkington (1908?1976)He left the Army again in 1942 and became a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, leading naval missions to India, Ceylon and Burma.
Lord Henry Percy On the occurrence of the Trent Affair in December 1861, Percy was sent to New Brunswick in command of the first battalion of the Grenadier Guards.
Charles Umpherston AitchisonIn March 1857 he was appointed an assistant in Hissár, then a district of the North-Western Provinces and in the following month was transferred to the Punjab, where he joined shortly after the outbreak of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Lord Henry PercyHe was also rewarded for his military services by being appointed to the colonelcy of the 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot on 28 May 1874.
Geoffrey McLeanHe was the last officer to hold this post before the Metropolitan Police was reorganised in 1985, when he became Assistant Commissioner Territorial Operations (ACTO).
Mike JacksonHe was given the title of Aide de Camp General (ADC) to Queen Elizabeth II in 2001, succeeding Sir Rupert Smith.
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of VimyAfter appointment as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1906, he was again back in Aldershot, in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade.
Martin Richards (police officer)Richards was appointed Chief Constable of the Wiltshire Police in September 2004.
Eric Dorman-SmithIn March 1938 he was offered the post of Director of Military Training for India, a major-general appointment, and he left Egypt in May.
Henry Fuller Maitland WilsonWilson went on half-pay in 1911 but the following year came back onto full pay as a temporary brigadier-general with the appointment as General Officer Commanding (GOC) 12th Infantry Brigade, based at Dover.
George WoottenIn October 1918, he was appointed to the staff of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, commander of British Empire forces in France.
Willoughby GwatkinIn July 1913 he was appointed Chief Staff Officer, Canada, the first to be appointed by the Dominion Government instead of by the British War Office.
William Robertson (British Army officer) With the start of the Second Boer War, Robertson was appointed as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General to Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, the British Commander-in-Chief South Africa, on 15 January 1900.
Joseph Henry Banks In 1895, Banks was brought out of retirement and posted to New Zealand to instruct the Colony's militia.
Colin WoodsThe following year he was appointed Commandant of Bramshill Police College, and in 1970 returned to the Met as Assistant Commissioner'' B'' (Traffic).
Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)Wood became colonel of the Royal Horse Guards in November 1907.
Alexander ClutterbuckLord Garner, Clutterbuck's successor at the Commonwealth Relations Office, wrote : : Clutterbuck's appointment as High Commissioner to Ottawa in 1946 marked the first occasion when a career officer, assigned to a major Commonwealth post, showed that he could hold his own against any appointments from outside the services.
Victor Williams (general)In 1907 he was appointed commanding officer of the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Inspector of Cavalry for the Dominion of Canada.
Eleanor ManningIn 1943, Manning became Deputy Controller to the Controller, Colonel Sybil Irving MBE of the AWAS, at their Headquarters in Melbourne.
Elchin KhalilovIn 2009, Khalilov was awarded by the Sultan and Governor of the Indonesian province of Yogyakarta with the province's commemorative coat of arms for introducing the new earthquake prediction technology.
Errol BarrowBy 1945 he had risen to the rank of Flying Officer and was appointed as personal navigator to the Commander in Chief of the British Zone of occupied Germany, Sir William Sholto Douglas.
Mustafa Adebayo BalogunHe was appointed Assistant Inspector General of Police in A. I. G Zone One Kano, the position he held when promoted to Inspector General of Police on March 6, 2002.
Guy RussellIn late 1941, Russell became naval liaison officer to the Governor of Gibraltar, Viscount Gort, and subsequently followed Gort to Malta as his chief of staff.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl HaigHaig was soon appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (September 1899) and then Assistant Adjutant General (i. e. chief staff officer) of French's brigade-sized force as it was sent off to the Boer War.
Milton Fowler GreggFollowing the outbreak of World War II, Gregg served overseas for two years with the West Nova Scotia Regiment and then commanded officer training centres at various military facilities in Canada and retired with the rank of Brigadier in 1943.
H. Montagu AllanSir Montagu Allan was honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the 5th Regiment of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, and in 1915 was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, accompanying them to Europe where he fought in World War I.
Hew Dalrymple FanshaweIn 1890, he left regimental duties to be appointed as the aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir Evelyn Wood VC, the commanding officer of Aldershot Command.
Mike JacksonFollowing their amalgamation in the modernisation of the regimental structure, Jackson was appointed to the newly created position of Honorary Colonel, the Rifle Volunteers, in 1999.
Edward Ingram (diplomat) During the First World War Ingram served as a captain on the General Staff at the War Office and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1918.
Stephen HouseFollowing roles of increasing responsibility and seniority in a number of police forces, he was appointed to his present position as the first Chief Constable of Police Scotland, on 1 October 2012.
Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron GrenfellAfter that he became Governor of Malta and then Commander-in-Chief, Ireland before retiring in 1908.
Nevil MacreadyHe briefly returned to police service during the 1926 General Strike, when he served as a staff officer to the Chief Commandant of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
Cecil Stephen NorthcoteWhen Northcote was appointed governor in 1918, the fifteen provincial governorships in the Sudan under Governor General Reginald Wingate were held by eight army officers, or former officers, and severn civilians.
William Taylor (police officer)In 1982 he was promoted to Commander, the youngest officer of chief officer rank in the Metropolitan Police, and was appointed Commander CID (North East London).
Ernest KingKing hoped to be appointed as either CNO or Cominch, but on 15 June 1939, he was posted to the General Board, an elephants' graveyard where senior officers spent the time remaining before retirement.
Charles George ArbuthnotHe was appointed Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery in 1893.
Alan Maxwell BoisragonIn early 1901 Boisragon was seconded from the army, and appointed Captain Superintendent of the Shanghai Municipal Police, arriving in March 1901 to take over command.
Lashmer Whistler In April 1957, just before Whistler's retirement, Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer asked him to become Chairman of the Committee on the Reorganisation of British Infantry.
Richard Dannatt, Baron DannattHe was appointed Colonel Commandant of the King's Division, in succession to Sir Scott Grant, on 1 July 2001.
Devanand KonwarWhile his service as the Governor of Bihar he was also given an additional charge as the Governor of West Bengal until he was succeeded by Mayankote Kelath Narayanan on 24 January 2010.
Dinkar Rao In 1875, the Viceroy of India, Lord Northbrook, selected him as a Commissioner, along with the Maharajas of Sindhia and Jaipur and three British colleagues, to try the Gaekwar of Baroda on a charge of attempting to poison Colonel Robert Phayre, the British Resident.
Prince George, Duke of CambridgeHe was also involved in the creation of the Staff College, the Royal Military School of Music, and became governor of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich : In the wake of the Prussian victory in the 1870 -- 71 Franco-Prussian War, the Liberal Party government of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell called for major army reforms.
Arthur Young (police officer)Seconded under the aegis of the Home Office for six months in November 1940 to Coventry after its blitz to run the city's police because the Chief Constable was fully occupied as Civil Defence Controller, he introduced there the'' good neighbour scheme'' for bombed out civilians that he had trialled in Leamington and which was later adopted nationally by the Home Office.
Harry ChauvelIn 1903, Hutton, now General Officer Commanding Australian Military Forces, sent Chauvel to South Australia to organise the light horse regiments there.
Charles, Prince of WalesCharles's first honorary appointment in the armed forces was as Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regiment of Wales in 1969 ; since then, the Prince has also been installed as Colonel-in-Chief, Colonel, Honorary Air Commodore, Air Commodore-in-Chief, Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Honorary Colonel, Royal Colonel, and Honorary Commodore of at least 32 military formations throughout the Commonwealth, including the Royal Gurkha Rifles, which is the only foreign regiment in the British army.
Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron HeskethOn 22 May of that year, he became Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords) under the next Prime Minister, John Major, a position he kept until 16 September 1993.
Erinayo Wilson OryemaIn 1963 Oryema was appointed the first African Deputy Inspector General of Police, and the flollowing year, Inspector General of Police.
Douglas OsmondAfter the war he returned to the police and was appointed as the chief constable of Shropshire Constabulary (now part of West Mercia Constabulary) in 1946.
Henry Hugh CliffordEarly in 1879 Clifford was selected to proceed to South Africa to take charge of the communications of Lord Chelmsford between Durban and the forces in the field.
Edward Badham On promotion to Police Sergeant in 1888, Edward Badham was transferred to' H' Division at Whitechapel, an area he would have been quite familiar with due to his previous duties in Hackney and nearby Bethnal Green.
Patric Laurence DickinsonOn 6 April 2010 he was promoted to the office of Norroy and Ulster King of Arms and Principal Herald of the North part of England and of Northern Ireland, holding this office very briefly until he was further advanced to Clarenceux King of Arms and Principal Herald for the South, East and West parts of England on 1 September 2010.
Joseph Henry BanksFive years after he had left New Zealand, following their highly praised contribution to the Boer Wars, in 1910 the contingents Banks had raised, trained and accompanied into battle were re-organised into professional regular regiments, becoming the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade which was the nucleus of the modern New Zealand Army.
John PlagisPlagis retired from the RAF as a wing commander in 1948 and returned to Southern Rhodesia, where the capital city, Salisbury, had honoured his wartime contributions by naming a street in its northern Alexandra Park neighbourhood after him ; he promptly received full citizenship.
George WaldenHe was then appointed Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, serving David Owen and Lord Carrington, for which he was decorated CMG in the New Year Honours of 1981.
Richard Hutton Davies On 3 October 1899 Davies transferred into the Permanent Force of the New Zealand Militia, where he was made responsible for the training of volunteer mounted units.
Victor HorsleyHe was next posted in May 1915 as a colonel and Director of Surgery of the British Army Medical Service in Egypt, based at the 21st General Hospital in Alexandria, in support of the Dardanelles Campaign.
Mark Kerr (Royal Navy officer)By Kerr's own testimony he found himself in disagreement on several matters of strategy with Sir Hugh Trenchard, the Chief of the Air Staff and on 1 April 1918, when the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps were merged to form the RAF, Kerr left the Air Council and was appointed General Officer Commanding No. 2 Area with his headquarters at Chafyn Grove School in the Wiltshire city of Salisbury.
Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes After leaving the forces in 1947, Hughes took up the first of his senior medical administrative posts, when he became the senior medical officer of the South East Metropolitan Hospital Board.
Greg Smith (British Army officer)On 15 May 2009, he was appointed to the honorary position of Deputy Colonel of The Rifles.
Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill After his appointment as Governor of Madras, Russell was appointed a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE) on 28 December 1900, shortly before his departure for India.
Philip GameAs a young artillery Captain he was made officer in charge of the gun carriage bearing the coffin of Queen Victoria at her funeral in 1901.
B. H. RobertsThe age limit of forty was waived -- Roberts was then sixty -- and Roberts became chaplain to the 145th Field Artillery, which arrived in France in September 1918 but did not see action before the Armistice was signed in November.
William MacphersonIn early 1914 he returned to England in company with Sir Arthur Sloggett as his deputy on Sloggett's appointment as the Director-General of the British Army's Medical Service at the War Office.
John Bramston (Australian politician)He served as Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies for more than 20 years, retiring in 1898 upon which he was created Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).
Joseph SimpsonThey had two sons, the elder of whom, Mark, served for some four years in the British South Africa Police in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) ; he resigned in 1963 to avoid being transferred from the Criminal Investigation Department back to the uniformed branch.
William HillcourtHe received his Wood Badge beads in 1939 and was appointed as the deputy camp director for Wood Badge.
Geoffrey Dear, Baron DearHe was widely expected to be appointed Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary in 1989, but the job went instead to Hugh Annesley.
Alan McKibbin In 1957 McKibbin was made hon. Colonel of the Army Cadet Force in Belfast, Antrim and North Down, and also became Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association.
Edward Puttick Puttick was succeeded as Chief of General Staff by Major General Norman Weir in late 1945 and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath the following year.
Iven MackayWith the war's end, Mackay retired from the army on 27 February 1946, and the post of High Commissioner gradually became a civilian one.
Thomas Griffiths (general)In September 1908 he was appointed secretary to the Military Board with the honorary rank of lieutenant in the Administrative and Instructional Staff.
Henry Edward ColvilleHe was appointed A. D. C. to General the Hon. Sir Leicester Smyth, commanding the forces in South Africa, in 1880.
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands wedding of the Crown Princess of Sweden and Daniel Westling in June 2010 Commodore (rank) | Commodore at the wedding of the Crown Princess of Sweden and Daniel Westling in June 2010 ; Royal Netherlands Navy -- Conscription ; Royal Netherlands Navy -- Reserve ; Royal Netherlands Air Force -- Reserve ; Royal Netherlands Army -- Reserve ; Royal Marechaussee -- Reserve See also List of honours of the Dutch Royal Family by country In his capacity as the Sovereign, Willem-Alexander is Grand Master of the Military Order of William (Militaire Willemsorde) and the other Dutch orders of merit.
Nick Parkerand given command of 20th Armoured Brigade, Parker served as commander of the British task force in Sierra Leone and advisor to the country's president in 2001, As General Officer Commanding 2nd Division, he was also Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
Edgar BairdAs superintendent of the Newfoundland Forestry Unit, Baird led a battalion of 960 foresters to Scotland in 1940, the largest single battalion ever to leave the province.
Thomas MorlandHe later served in Nigeria, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and being appointed Commanding Officer of the West African Field Force in 1900.
Lashmer WhistlerAfter final meetings with Lord Mountbatten and Nehru, and a parade at the Gateway of India, Whistler left Bombay with the last British battalion on 28 February 1948.
Ernest Frank RichardsonOn 26 May 1918 she joined the City of Salisbury Police and was attested as a Constable in the City immediately.
Lloyd MathewsMathews was appointed the British Consul-General for East Africa in 1891 but declined to take up the position, remaining in Zanzibar instead.
George Frederik Willem Borel Borel returned to the Netherlands on June 11, 1875 and was placed at the second fortress-artillery regiment.
W. F. Jackson KnightHe achieved a considerable reputation for turning the Contingent into one of the best units of its kind in the United Kingdom, and received official recognition for himself and the school in being promoted to Brevet Major when he relinquished command with effect from 1 January 1932.
Alfred Herbert Richardson Alfred Richardson was entitled to retire in 1918 when he had reached pensionable age within the Police Force.
Gerald WollastonHe remained a herald in ordinary until 1929, when he was appointed Norroy King of Arms.
Walter E. ReesOrganised rugby was disbanded during the First World War, but Rees continued his duties after the end of hostilities, and was made permanent secretary of the WFU in 1921.
Alexander CobbeFollowing yet another mention for his good services in France, this time in a despatch from Field Marshal Douglas Haig dated April 1916, he was promoted to Major-General in June 1916, the appointment specifically stating that it was a reward for `` Distinguished Service in the Field''.
Lashmer WhistlerIn 1959, the governments of Nigeria and Sierra Leone also invited him to become Honorary Colonel of the Royal Nigerian Military Forces, and the Royal Sierra Leone Military Forces.
Francis Dart FentonIn March 1856 he was made Native Secretary by Governor Browne ; but his policy clashing with that of (afterwards Sir) Donald McLean, Chief Native Land Commissioner, he was compelled to resign, and was appointed Resident Magistrate at Whaingaroa.
Percy Abbott (Australian politician)A strong supporter of conscription who was horrified at the number of troops voting against it, he was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George in June 1917 and was selected as commander of the 63rd Battalion, which was disbanded before it could serve.
Charles Beaumont PhippsHe was appointed private secretary to Prince Albert on 1 January 1847, and went on half-pay from the Army later that month as a lieutenant-colonel.
Trevor BighamFollowing the sudden death of Sir Charles Royds on 5 January 1931, Bigham succeeded him as Assistant Commissioner'' A'', in charge of administration and uniformed operations and with the courtesy title of Deputy Commissioner.
Peter NeyroudHe was appointed Assistant Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary in 1998 and reached Deputy Chief Constable two years later.
Maraden Panggabean In July 1966, the position of Deputy Army Commander was created and Panggabean was appointed to the position to assist Suharto with his increasing workload.
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of DundonaldHe was appointed General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada in 1902.